Railway car



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J. T. Wmwm RAILWAY GAR mm April 28, 192? EEC] lmwaiim' with respect to lit till

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RAILWAY CAR.

Application filed April as, 192?. serial no. rat/ass.

Thisinvention relates to railway cars such as are used on subways, elevated railways and the like and has for an object an improved arrangement of doors and seats to facilitate the loading and unloading of such cars.

According to one embodiment of the inven tion, the car is provided with not less than two sets of, doors in each side, the doors in each side being uniformly spaced with respect to each other and in staggered relation the doors in the other side.

Seats are arranged on each side of the car opposite the doors of the other side. The seats may be arranged crosswise or lengthwiseof the car or both crosswise and lengthwise. The doors preferably are of the sliding type and may be either single or double. Preferably, the doors are so arranged that there is provided a door adjacent each end of the car, these doors being on opposite sides of the car.

This arrangement provides an aisle throughout the whole length of the car so that easy access may be had to either end thereof; The seats being placed opposite the doors offer little obstruction to the movement of passengers and a large eifective aisle width throughout the car and at the same time a large capacity are obtained. Thls arrangement provides an outside door for the motormans cab in the front of the first car of a train of such cars, regardless of the direction of movement of the train, while also providing for equal spacing of the doors the entire length or the train. The central alsle may be substantially straight, in which event the seats will be of a width substantially less than half the width of the car or the aisle may besomewhat zigzag in shape, in which event certain of the seats may be made nearly as wide as half the width of the car. Tn either event, there will be provided a substantial aisle, but in the latter case there will be more seats.

@ther objects, novel features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following specification and accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a horizontal section through a car embodying the inventionrand Fig. 2 is a side elevation partially broken away of such car.

10 designates the car proper which is mounted upon suitable trucks 11 in the usual manner. In each side wall of the car are provided doors 12. The doors 12 may be either of the single or double type as desired and preferably are slidably mounted in the side of the car. ()ne door of one side of the car is arranged adjacent one end of the car and one door of the other side of the car is arranged adjacent the other end of the car.

These two doors are of the single type and one leads into a compartment 13 which may be used as the motormans cab. In this compartment is provided a folding seat it for use by the motorman when the compartment is used as the motormans cab. The remaining doors 12 are arranged in each side of the car in staggered relationship to the doors in the other side, Opposite each door 12 is arranged a group of seats 15. its here shown,

these seats extend laterally of the car. However, they might equally well extend longitudinally or both laterally and longitudinally. These seats take up the space between adjacent doors or between one door and the end of the car.

The seats may be made of such Width as to accommodate two persons, in which event the width of the car taken up by the seats will be less than half the width of the car, as shown in full lines in Fig. 1, thereby providing a longitudinal straight aisle of a width equal approximately to half the width of the car. W here the width of the car permits, the seating capacity may be increased by extending certain of the seats as shown in dotted lines, so that these seats will accommodate three instead of two people. With this arrangement, the aisle is somewhat narrower and of zigzag shape, but is of suflicient width to permit easy access to any part of the car from any one of the doors. a

The motormans controls may be arranged in the compartment 13 in the usual manner and means may be provided for shutting off the compartment from the remainder of the car. When this compartment is not used as the motormans cab, the controls may be closed in, as is common practice at the present time, and the seat 14 dropped to permit entrance'of passengers through the end door. Also at each end of the car there may be pro vided controls for operating the car doors, which controls may also be arranged to control the doors of cars other than the one in which they are located.

Preferably there are provided two double type doors in either side of the car and one single type door. It is apparent, however, that different arrangements of doors may be used. Whatever the arrangement of doors, however, seats are provided opposite thereto, the seats and doors on either side of the car being staggered with respect to the seats and doors on the opposite sides. Although a particular arrangement of seats has been dis closed specifically, it is apparent that other arrangements might be used. It is evident that the seats in each group may be positioned longitudinally of the car instead of laterally as shown. Regardless of the positioning of these seats, the grouping arrangement is the, same. The seats may be either of the fixed or reversible type. When all of the doors on both sides are open, the maximum distanceto a door is much less than when the doors are arranged opposite to each other. This results in a quick unloading of the car.

I claim:

1. In a railway car, doors mounted in the sides thereof, each door in one side being offset with respect to each door of the other side, and a plurality of seats arran ed on each side of the car opposite each-door on the other side.

2. In a railway car, doors mounted in the sides thereof, each door in one side being off- .set with respect to each door in the other side,

and aplurality of seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door of the other side, the space taken up by said seats being less than one-half the width of the car. i

'3. In a railway car, a plurality of doors in each side, the doors in each side being offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of laterally-positioned seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door in the other side.

4:. In a railwaycar, a plurality of doors in each side, the doors in each side being ofiset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of laterally-positioned seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door in the other side, certain of the seats being longer than the others but being of less length than one-half the width of the car.

5. In a railway car, a plurality of doors in each side, one door in each side being adjacent one end of the car and the doors in each side being offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of seats arranged on each, side of the car opposite each door of the otherside.

6. In a railway car, a plurality of doors in each side, one door in each side being adjacent one end of the car and the doors in each side being offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of laterally-positioned seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door of the other side.

7. In a railway car, a plurality of doors in each side, one door in each side being adja cent one end of the car and the doors in each side being offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of laterullypositioned seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door of the other side, certain of the seats being longer than the others but of less length than one-half the width of the car.

8. In a railway car, a plurality of doors slidably mounted in each side, the doors in each side being offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door of the other side.

9. In a railway car, two sets of doors in each side, one door being arranged at one end of each side of the car and the doors in one side being uniformly spaced and offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door in the other side.

10. In a railway car, two sets of doors in each side, one door being arranged at one end of each side of the car and the doors in one side being uniformly spaced and offset with respect to the doors in the other side, and a plurality of seats arranged on each side of the car opposite each door in the other side, certain of the seats being of greater length than the others but of less length than one-half the width of the car.

11. In a railway car, a plurality of doors in each side, the doors in each side being olfset with respect to the doors in the other side, seats arranged on each side of the car opposite the doors in the other side, said seats extending less than one-half the width of the car whereby there is provided a longitudinal aisle centrally of the car.

12. A railway car having a plurality of spaced doors on each side intermediate the ends thereof, said doors being offset with respect to each other, a. seat arranged opposite each of said doors, said seats being arranged to provide a longitudinal aisle substantially centrally of the car.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

JOHN T. WARREN. 

